Newspaper Project

BOOKS:

 

"Political cartoon showing the corruption and control
of the railroad monopoly during the Gilded Age
as represented by railroad tycoon Jay Gould."
Gilded Age Reference Library. Ed.
Lawrence W. Baker and Rebecca Valentine. Vol. 2:
Biographies. Detroit: UXL, 2007.

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DATABASES:

Free Trial: EBSCO: http://search.ebscohost.com/
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If you have a public library card, you can click here, and then try these databases:

• History in Context: US (Gale)
• World Book Encyclopedia

On the web:  Encyclopedia Brittanica

WEBSITES:

• History.com
• Digital History
• New Perspectives on the West - PBS
• Billy Mason's Lecture Notes (John T. HOGGARD HIGH School)
• Urbanization and Immigration 1865-1900
• The West and the New South: After Reconstruction 1865-1900
• The Progressive Era 1901-1918
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/audiodir.html#7603584

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US Postage stamp, Transcontinental railroad issue, 1944, 3c